Steven Weimer

Area of Expertise: Music Theory, Aural Skills, Composition, Electronic Music

Telephone: 270.809.6454Office: FA 541

Steven Weimer’s music has been performed by the JACK Quartet, Molly Barth, Fear No
Music Quartet, saxophonist Sean Xue, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Chamber Players,
CCM Wind Ensemble, CCM Chamber Players, Café Momus, and many others. Performances
of his work span from Alaska to Bulgaria, with premieres at festivals such as June
in Buffalo, Forum-Festival Computer Music Space, North American Saxophone Alliance,
Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, and the
Music Theory and Musicology Society Conference. He has been commissioned by Vandoren,
Inc., tubist Timothy Northcut, and most recently by the CCM Orchestra program for
a new work for mezzo-soprano and orchestra. His awards include the Eta Omicron chapter’s
Phi Mu Alpha Composition Contest, the CCM Concerto/Composition Competition, a grant
from the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, and placing as a finalist for
the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s Marilyn Glick Young Composers Competition. Dr.
Weimer has enjoyed recent collaborations with American poets in Cincinnati and California;
his setting of Kathleen Winter’s Eve, Seducing the Apple will be published in the
tenth anniversary edition of the Cincinnati Review.

Dr. Weimer is a passionate educator and a strong advocate for new music. He remains
active as a conductor, leading the premier performances of works by Brian Heim and
Nicholas Landrum at the 2014 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium. In 2012 Dr.
Weimer founded ‘Fringe Logic,’ a new music ensemble that premiered works of local
and established composers in Cincinnati. The group focused on performances outside
of the standard concert hall setting and incorporated elements of improvisation and
live composition.